"Kristen Ashley captivates."―Publisher's Weekly
Still Standing, an all-new emotional and fiery MC romance from New York Times bestselling author Kristen Ashley, is available now!
When Clara Delany walks into the Aces High Motorcycle Club’s hangout, she’s hit rock bottom. She’s hiding her car from the repo man, she has less than two dollars in her bank account and the only employment she can get is delivering messages for a criminal.
All because of a man. Therefore, she’s sworn off them.
And then she meets West “Buck” Hardy, president of the Aces High MC.
Buck also meets her, and the minute he does, he makes it clear (to everyone but Clara) that they’re starting something. Since Clara doesn’t get that message, she decides to leave Buck and sort out her life in order to come back to him clean.
She’s not gone but hours before life hits Clara with another blow. Which means Buck and his boys have to ride in and save the day. After that, Buck makes no bones about where they stand.
But does he?
Welcome to the first novel in the Wild West MC series which will tell the stories of the brothers of the Aces High MC, the Resurrection MC and the Chaos MC…and the women who love them.
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Excerpt
“Babe,” he growled.
A warning.
Definitely.
I’d gone too far.
I also didn’t care.
“Okay, so then does Tia have to sleep with one, or, say, all of your boys?”
“Don’t do that shit. You know that’s not what I’m talkin’ about.”
“So maybe you’ll explain what you’re talking about.”
“I would, you shut your trap.”
I shut my trap and stared at his shadowed head.
He stared at mine.
Then he muttered, “Christ, need my head examined.”
“You could get off me,” I reminded him.
“Is this shuttin’ your trap?”
I shut my trap again.
“You take of care my house and my business as well as me.”
“What does that mean?”
“That means you move outta the apartment before they kick your ass out. You move into my house. You keep it clean. You keep me fed, that is, when I’m not feedin’ you, and I like to cook, so mostly, I’ll be feedin’ you. You come to work with me and take care of the office, and you go home with me.”
Wow.
Was he serious?
That sounded like…it sounded like…
My God, it didn’t sound like a sex-for-safety arrangement.
It sounded like a relationship.
It has bee a minute since I read this author. Just like riding a bike. Took me a chapter or so and I was hooked on her writing style and characters.
This book launches our look at the Aces MC in Arizona. Buck is the Prez and has a rough past. Clara falls in to his life and he decides she is his. The story goes forward from there.
Fans of KA might not be familiar with MC books. MC readers might not be familiar with KA. I am going to come out on the side of MC fans liking this book more than KA traditional romance readers. We see some of the underbelly of the MC life. It takes a certain type to survive the brotherhood lifestyle.
My concern for the story was Clara's response to everything. She is a sweetheart who survived foster care and is trying to stand on her own for once in her life. But she just let so much ride before she ever said anything--if she did--about how she was treated or what someone said or even what she liked best. Without spoilers, there is an incident with Buck that should not have EVER happened, should not be tolerated even with an MC Prez, and was explained away way to easy. Clara excepted it and went about her business.
This is a long book but well written in that it didn't seem like it was struggling to fill pages. All good words! Lots of interesting characters in here. Most of the MC are already with ol ladies though so I am interested to see where the series goes. I will for sure read the next one and hope there is no more tap dancing on the line of decent treatment of women.
*Complimentary copy provided for an honest review.
Kristen Ashley is the New York Times bestselling author of over sixty romance novels including the Rock Chick, Colorado Mountain, Dream Man, Chaos, Unfinished Hero, The ’Burg, Magdalene, Fantasyland, The Three, Ghost and Reincarnation, Moonlight and Motor Oil and Honey series along with several standalone novels. She’s a hybrid author, publishing titles both independently and traditionally, her books have been translated in fourteen languages and she’s sold over three million books.
Kristen’s novel, Law Man, won the RT Book Reviews Reviewer’s Choice Award for best Romantic Suspense. Her independently published title Hold On was nominated for RT Book Reviews best Independent Contemporary Romance and her traditionally published title Breathe was nominated for best Contemporary Romance. Kristen’s titles Motorcycle Man, The Will, Ride Steady (which won the Reader’s Choice award from Romance Reviews) and The Hookup all made the final rounds for Goodreads Choice Awards in the Romance category.
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